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hard top

hard top

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Yeah t-tony but you have got the tie down points like you have in the Z3 boot have you not?....
 
No mate not in my old shed.;)

Tony.
 
t-tony said:
And another thing I'm seeing more and more is a short piece of belt which plugs into one of the seatbelt buckles and it has a dog clip on the other end. OK, I get that this is to help restrain a flying dog (possibly a large dog) in the event of an accident but would you want to be the one to release a panicking dog hanging by it's collar in an overturned car? I wouldn't

Tony.
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My father-in law was getting his yorkshire terrier from its haircut when this happened:


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the windscreen bulge is where the dog hit it, he was sitting on the passenger seat....

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Thankfully it was only concussion and had bitten his tongue.
Fully recovered now and always wears the short clips belt thingy.

the dog's the same ......
 
Bit like RR firing frozen chickens into their aircraft engines ...........

Tony.
 
=))=))

Tony.
 
t-tony said:
Bit like RR firing frozen chickens into their aircraft engines ...........

Tony.
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Jeez - How high do geese fly exactly? Never knew we were at risk of a Canada goose circling up on thermals to 35,000 feet, then, having frozen itself solid, that it was going to hurl itself at the nearest jet to get warm again :whistle:
Never going to set food on a plane or in Iceland ever again =))
 
Why would you put food on a plane anyways;) Everyone knows that airline food is decious:p

Tony.
 
NO comment !!;)

Tony.
 
hard top said:
Better start freezing yorkshire terrier's then.....
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On the subject of frozen dogs.....

some years ago I was crew on one of the RNLI's inland Lifeboat projects.
We got called to rescue a dog that had run out onto a frozen pond and had gone through.
Can't remember the breed but about the size of a yorkshire terrier.
We responded as much to prevent the owner going in after it.
We arrived, launched the little dinghy and proceeded to smash our way through the ice to get to this now very still dog.
Eventually we got to it, I grabbed it and lifted it in the boat.
It was frozen solid by this point and stood up on all fours!
My mate said "quick, push the f*&ker over, if the owner see's it looking over the side she'll think its still alive!"
 
It's amazing how dogs can survive. One ran out on me 2 years ago and it bounced off my Alhmabra front bumper with me doing 40mph. It was a bit confused for 20 minutes then got up and wanted to walk off. It survived with no ill effects. Unlike my car that needed £1,500 of repair and is still affecting my insurance now despite it being non-fault!

You really do need to secure dogs in cars. Otherwise you are at risk of being struck by a flying dog. It's the same thing as telling your rear seat passengers to put a belt on even if they don't care about themselves.

Do I think it would help the dog? Not sure. If they only had a collar on it would probably throttle them. My other half's dogs always wear car harnesses to try and spread the strain. And they get attached to the anchor point in the boot - not seats. With the headrests pulled right up. And yes she does care more about those bl**dy dogs than me :arghh:

I'd have to say releasing a dangling dog would be a secondary concern to the above safety considerations. And as you'll see from the photo below those 2 are big enough they would just end up on their backs, with legs in the air, probably looking for their tummies to be tickled thinking it was all a great laugh ;)

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